208 Climate &c. of Washington County, Ohi. 
the spring. Indian corn, in this climate, if planted in May; 
on rich land, and well cultivated, never fails of producing a 
good crop, let the season be as it may, either very wet or very 
dry ; for twenty years, the period of time the writer has been 
in this county, there has not been a single failure of the crop 
of corn, in the rich bottom lands. Crops of potatoes, oats; 
flax, &c. sometimes fail, but corn seems so well suited to the 
soil and climate, that it may be considered a certain crops 
In autumn, the farmer has from September to the middle 
of December to sow his wheat ; the ground being sufficiently 
open till that time, in most seasons, for ploughing. If not 
sown by the middle of November, they prefer waiting until 
February, as the frost is injurious to the tender roots of the 
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and rye by the twentieth of the same month. The wheat in 
the two last years has been much injured, by an insect of the 
moth, or miller tribe, the egg of which is deposited in the 
grain while in the milk, and hatched into a winged insect, af- 
ter the wheat is in the barn, or stack, making its appearance 
is ready for reaping the last of June, | 
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